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I’m still using the Yahoo Media Player. All I have to do is include a link to an MP3 file, and you can click to play it. For example, here’s Barenaked Ladies: Crazy ABCs. If you play it and like it, you can hit the Buy button on the player, and it’ll fire up an Amazon search using the link text and my Amazon affiliate id. The Yahoo Media Player folks think that purchase flow should be an integral part of posting music to the web.

The track in question is a favorite from Snacktime, the CD of which has been in our car player for a couple of weeks now. To link to the album, I used a more conventional means of helping you to Amazon (and helping myself at the same time). It was rather more laborious for me. There are yet other means, such as plugins, but I won’t go into them here.

The track is hosted at Dropbox. In case you’re wondering, yes I did have invites, but no I don’t have any left. Sorry.

The new Yahoo Music Player seemed to make playlists as simple as they could be. So I thought I’d try it out, at the same time getting some of my favorite tracks from an out-of-print CD up on to the web. See my main blog for more details.

• Bad Reputation, by Freedy Johnston.
• Bad, by Kirsty MacColl.
• Broken Bottle, by Alejandro Escovedo.
• Fall at Your Feet, by Crowded House.